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Jon is Currently Reading

Jon Gill is currently reading

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 16, 2026 09:13AM

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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

bookshelves: 2020, audiobook, classics, on-own-shelf, my-top-fiction-recommendations, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 2020

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— Jul 16, 2026 06:04AM

Jan 30, 2020 07:39PM

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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

bookshelves: classics, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 1997

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(page 20 of 129)
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Jul 07, 2016 11:11AM

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Jon’s Quotes

“Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

tags: men, ray-bradbury, sin, truth

13 likes

“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

tags: science-miracles

362 likes

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.”
― G.K. Chesterton

5 likes

“You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'

'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: apocalypse, death, hells-angels, humor

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